It does indeed sound like a typical misleading PR statement, made intentionally vague by not specifying who “we” is even supposed to refer to exactly in this context. But to be fair, although it is kind of implied, it doesn’t explicitly claim that those scientists are actively working on Proton as software developers (or anything really).
I know this originally came from CERN, but I find it hard to believe those same folks are working on this now.
As far as I can tell only two of the three founders that “met at CERN” (the about page doesn’t say they worked there as scientists) still work at the company: the CEO Andy Yen and Jason Stockman who does apparently work on the UI and websites, although I’m not sure if the latter is actually a “scientist”. The last co-founder Wei Sun worked at CERN as a student, but left the company already back in 2014.
It does indeed sound like a typical misleading PR statement, made intentionally vague by not specifying who “we” is even supposed to refer to exactly in this context. But to be fair, although it is kind of implied, it doesn’t explicitly claim that those scientists are actively working on Proton as software developers (or anything really).
As far as I can tell only two of the three founders that “met at CERN” (the about page doesn’t say they worked there as scientists) still work at the company: the CEO Andy Yen and Jason Stockman who does apparently work on the UI and websites, although I’m not sure if the latter is actually a “scientist”. The last co-founder Wei Sun worked at CERN as a student, but left the company already back in 2014.